Texting when you are driving is not a very smart thing to do. This is because you aren't paying as close of attention to your driving. When you are driving your mind should fully concentrated on your driving. When your texting and driving it slows you reaction time down quite a bit.
They have started to put laws in that has a fine for texting in driving. However, it is tough for officers to catch this. People need to take an initiative and be smart. hHey should not text while they are driving! The same thing goes for talking on the phone, the general reaction time was also slower when on the phone. That should be a good indicator to not talk or text while driving.